We overanalyze Trump. He is what he appears to be.

[Julian Englis]

From Vox: We overanalyze Trump. He is what he appears to be.

We badly want to understand Trump, to grasp him. It might give us some sense of control, or at least an ability to predict what he will do next.

But what if there’s nothing to understand? What if there’s no there there? What if our attempts to explain Trump have failed not because we haven’t hit on the right one, but because we are, theory-of-mind-wise, overinterpreting the text?

In short, what if Trump is exactly as he appears: a hopeless narcissist with the attention span of a fruit fly, unable to maintain consistent beliefs or commitments from moment to moment, acting on base instinct, entirely situationally, to bolster his terrifyingly fragile ego.

Stupid is what stupid does. Now, if his supporters could understand this. Trump really is the poster boy for |the Dunning Kruger effect:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive incapacity, on the part of those with low ability, to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their competence accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: high-ability individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.

Of course, many of Trump's supporters are examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

[furtheradu]

1. Understand THIS: he's a FREAK.

See? It ain't complicated!

[Dustlawyer]

2. Totally true of Trump!

Born on third base and never worked for anyone but dad. Bullies his way through life, never being told no, or worse, that he is wrong.

It is easy to through out criticism and bombastic comments, to have to govern the country and actually work are new and terrible things to him. He keeps saying things like "no one knew health care was hard" because he didn't know it. Complaining that "...being President was hard, much harder than running his business." He thought running his business was going to be harder than being POTUS.

If these don't point out someone stupid who didn't doesn't know he is stupid, I don't know what does!